HUGE disappointment...

Rating: 3/10 (10 August 2013)

Its been a long time since I've seen a bigger disappointment than Pacific Rim, this Avatar wannabe, second rate Japanese Robot parody reject is just simply not worth watching past the first 4 minutes, which I kept missing (until just recently) in part out of pure bad luck. I'm sick of catching the ass end of that bridge scene with that 1st big monster, which is the unfortunate promise unkept in this movie, one of the grandest and richest unrealized promises, I think, in the history of motion pictures, especially when you factor in gems like the War of the Worlds, King Kong and Godzilla franchises, even the Roland Emmerich Godzilla. Del Toro really needs to try another version of this concept and get it right this time, with the big, scary simplicity that bridge scene promised the first time, but this time delivering us a movie worth watching, with some Joy Luck Club heat in the apocalyptic backdrop of those monsters taking over the world, with not one of those stupid assed robots in sight.